Bosch Aerotwin 3397007297 Replacement Wiper Blade Set

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I have not installed these windshield wiper blades on my 2016 Audi Q5 Crossover SUV. In fact, my Q5’s original factory installed windshield wiper blades are still working just fine at sweeping the rain away from my windshield. Every car I’ve owned for the past twenty-nine years or so has had a brand new pair of the correct windshield wiper blades to fit it inside a reasonably airtight tube stored in the vehicle’s trunk. Why do I go to the trouble to do that? That is a fair question.

Have you ever been driving down the road on a beautiful, sunny, day with not a whisper of a cloud in the sky, and come to the conclusion that your windshield wipers need to be replaced immediately? I would hazard a guess that out of 1,000.0 people who were asked that question, the number of people answering it in the affirmative would number somewhere to the right of the decimal point. Almost every single the time people decide it is time to change their car’s windshield wiper blades is when they have been driving blind in a goose-drowning rain storm or a sleet storm that could freeze a Wooly Mammoth in its tracks with windshield wiper blades that don’t even touch 80 – 95% of the surface of the windshield glass you would like to be able to see through while you are driving. Sound familiar? Well, that’s a pretty fair description of something that happened to me back in late November 1988 that changed my windshield wiper blade buying habits ever since then.

I had noticed the wiper blades on my “Old Faithful” ’79 Buick LeSabre had been leaving water streaks in a few places when I turned the wipers on. The streaking wasn’t really bad at that time, just kind of an annoyance. I remember saying to myself, “Make a mental note to go to Wal-Mart and buy a pair of Anco windshield wiper blades for the ’79 Buick.” But I think my mental note-taker’s pen was out of ink, or something, because even though I would go to Wal-Mart many times before that fateful day in late November 1988 mentioned above, a pair of Anco windshield wiper blades for my 1979 Buick LeSabre never made their way into my shopping basket (nobody ever called shopping baskets “shopping carts” until Al Gore invented the Internet. I’m pretty sure you can look that up on the internet and see that I’m right).

Before I knew it, Spring of 1988 had suddenly turned into early winter on the Saturday following Thanksgiving in Northwest Missouri, where my wife and I were living, and it was time for us to go to the Christmas Tree Farm and participate in the holiday tradition we shared of finding the “perfect” Christmas tree for the two of us, and several good friends with whom we shared the joy of the Christmas and New Year holidays. My wife would always find the “perfect” tree, and I would cut it down and together we would carry our “perfect” tree to the route the Christmas Tree Farm’s tractor and flat bed wagon used to help customers get their trees back to the office where each tree would be measured, priced, paid for, wrapped, and secured to the top of the customer’s car.

We had just started carrying our tree to the pick-up route when it began to snow lightly. As the workers at the Christmas Tree Farm wrapped our “perfect” Christmas tree in their plastic netting and tied it down securely with hay baling twine on the roof of our ’79 Buick and we got ready to drive away from the Christmas Tree Farm, that snowfall, which had begun as big, soft, fluffy flakes that would gently float onto your face, had changed into small pellets of ice that stung your face when they hit. I decided not to take the more direct route home on the state highway, because doing so would require us to drive at a much faster speed, increasing the risk of the wind rushing through and over our “perfect” Christmas tree, stripping a great number of needles from its branches, converting the “perfect” Christmas tree into a “Charlie Brown” Christmas tree. So I “recalculated” my mental GPS for our new route home through the country on the county road which had an asphalt blacktop driving surface and curved around and about and up and down through the hills and valleys much more, going “over the river and through the woods” as county roads often do, mainly because it didn’t require (actually, it wouldn’t safely permit) the faster driving speed of the concrete surfaced state road. As I began our drive home with our Christmas tree securely tied to the top of our ’79 Buick LeSabre, the falling precipitation turned into sleet, which began to stick to our cold windshield immediately. As I reached for the windshield wiper switch, my mental note system suddenly kicked into gear and reminded me, “Go to Wal-Mart and buy a pair of Anco windshield wiper blades for the ’79 Buick”. As the old windshield wipers began to move back and forth, skating and chattering across the sleet that was immediately freezing to my windshield, I thought to myself (and my mental note-taker), “Great! NOW you remind me!” By the time I could get to the nearest Wal-Mart or any other retail store that would have a pair of windshield wiper blades for a ’79 Buick LeSabre, I’ll be home with an ice-covered Christmas Tree and windshield. So I did the only thing I could do at that point in time. I turned off the windshield wipers, (since the sleet freezing to the windshield was slowly chewing away more rubber from my windshield wipers with every pass back and forth), slid the car’s temperature switch as far to the right (HOT) as possible, directed the heated air to the windshield DEFROSTER, and flipped the blower speed switch to HIGH. I then drove off down the county road, SLOWLY, looking out through a tiny slot of unfrozen glass at the bottom of the windshield for a somewhat unobstructed view of the road and any oncoming traffic, or looking through the windshield where I normally looked, for a distorted view of the road ahead through the layer of frozen sleet covering the rest of the windshield. Every four or five minutes, I would stop, turn on my hazard flashers, and turn on the windshield wipers to see if they could remove any more of the sleet frozen to the windshield without scraping of any more of their rubber wiping edge. Then I would turn off the hazard flashers and the windshield wipers, flip my left turn blinker on to signal I was pulling back onto the road, and continue our journey home. I repeated this procedure three or four more times before the windshield got warm enough to thaw the ice frozen to the windshield, I got brave enough to drive a little faster, and the aerodynamic lift generated by the speed of the wind flowing above the windshield caused the sheet of ice to release all at once, shattering into smaller pieces, and flying off the windshield, finally giving me relatively good vision through the windshield and more courage to drive that ’79 Buick LeSabre, with the “perfect” Christmas tree tied to its top, home as quickly as that twisty blacktop county road would allow. After we removed the ice-covered “perfect” Christmas tree from the roof of the ’79 Buick, we carried it into the Buick’s side of our heated garage, stood it up and secured it in its tree stand, removed the plastic netting put on it at the Christmas Tree Farm to make it easier to handle and secure to the top of our car, and let the sleet that fell on the “perfect” Christmas tree, turning it into a glistening gown of ice during our exciting trip home from the Christmas Tree Farm, melt and drip onto the floor, where the Christmas tree stood “perfectly” straight in its tree stand, waiting to assume its traditional placement in our Family Room until it stopped dripping water, I went to Wal-Mart and bought the ’79 Buick LeSabre a new set of Anco wiper blades and installed them as soon as I got back home.

That explains why I bought a brand new set of Bosch Aerotwin Windshield Wiper Blades for our 2016 Audi Q5 Crossover SUV, not because the windhield wiper blades installed on the Audi assembly line have worn out unusually quickly. The performance of the Bosch OEM windshield wiper blades is quite the opposite. Even with the extremely high temperatures, high humidity, and extremely high levels and frequency of rain of rainstorms we can have here in New Orleans, LA, the OEM Bosch windshield wiper blades installed on my Audi Q5 Crossover SUV have worked extremely well, as they have since they were brand new, which they almost are! I bought them because I learned the hard way to always buy a set of original equipment windshield wiper blades when I DON’T need them and keep them “warehouse fresh” in a relatively airtight storage container in the trunk of my motor vehicles so that I’LL HAVE THEM WHEN I ACTUALLY NEED THEM, POSSIBLY AT A TIME I MIGHT BE UNABLE TO GET THEM BECAUSE LOCAL RETAILERS ARE OUT OF STOCK OR CLOSED FOR SOME REASON. I don’t even want to think about how dangerous and life-threatening it would be to to drive a vehicle with worn out or badly streaking windshield wiper blades and having no new condition windshield wiper blades on hand to install on the vehicle I would be driving through the Tropical Storm strength winds and heavy rain bands which usually precede by several hours the arrival of a large, dangerous Category 2 or higher Hurricane, away from which my wife and I would be trying to evacuate, before the arrival of the really nasty and impossible to drive through weather conditions, even in a full-time All Wheel Drive SUV, like our Audi Q5 Crossover SUV with its time-proven Quattro drivetrain.

Works well, installs (not as easily but still decently) just like the originals though I felt that the ‘fitting’ was a little more tight than expected. I got the 24/20″ set for a 2014 Audi Q5 and they are identical to the originals that came with my car. They are quiet, don’t stutter, and streaking is minimal. Was hoping that there would be zero streaking, but I’ll give it some time to see if they improve with some use (it has only been about a week and it’s rained twice). Significantly cheaper than having the dealership sell and install for me though, so I’m pleased (currently) with the results!

Great quality , perfect fit, quiet, easy to install